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Boulder Non Profits and Charities C
Jan 15th
Boulder Charities and Non Profits page list all that you may wish to donate to or contact.
Boulder Charities
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Cal-Wood Education Center
P.O. Box 347
Jamestown, CO, CO 80455
Phone: 303-449-0603
To offer a uniue educational experience to youth and adults in a manner that will carry on the vision of Roger and Oral Calvert.
Cancer uilt Project
2495 Agate Road
Boulder, CO 80304
Phone: 720-244-2207
Cancer uilt Project is an independent, non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, organized to design, sew and uilt handmade uilts for donation and distribution to chemotherapy centers for the purpose of providing beauty and comfort to cancer patients receiving treatment.
Caring Pregnancy Center
1275 Centaur Village Drive
Lafayette, CO 80026
Phone: 303-665-2341
Caring Pregnancy Center (CPC) is an inter-denominational Christian, non-profit, non-political organization dedicated to providing constructive alternatives to abortion. We support women, men and children before, during and after an unexpected pregnancy.
Carriage House
PO Box 626
Boulder, CO, CO 80306
Phone: 303-442-8300
Carriage House is a day resource center that provides a stable, supportive community for homeless men and women. We meet immediate surival needs and provide resources that lead to employment, housing, personal stability and healing.
Catalog for Giving – Boulder County
1123 Spruce Street
Boulder , CO 80302
Phone: 720-565-3898
The Catalog for Giving of Boulder County was developed to bring public attention to these organizations that provide services to youth, but which have a difficult time finding financial support and other necessary resources.
Center for People With Disabilities
1675 Range Street
Boulder, CO 80301
Phone: 303-442-8662
Believing that all people are entitled to the freedom to make choices and the right to live independently in the community, CPWD provides resources, information and advocacy to empower people with disabilities to overcome barriers to independent living.
Center for ReSource Conservation
1702 Walnut Street
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: 303-441-3278
The Center for ReSource Conservation is committed to leading Colorado residents, businesses, and municipalities towards a sustainable future.
Central Asia Institute
617 South 5th Avenue
Bozeman, MT, CO 59715
Phone: 406-585-7841
Supporting community-based programs in education, women’s empowerment, public healtha and conservation in regions of Pakistan’s Karakoram and Central Asia’s Pamir mountains
Children’s House Preschool
3370 Iris Walk Ct.
Boulder, CO 80304
Phone: 303-444-6432
We believe all children of every ability, race, native language, culture and socio-economic status have the right to flourish in an inclusive preschool program.
Circle of Care
P.O. Box 4204
Boulder , CO 80306
Phone: 303-358-4300 or 303-444-1429
Circle of Care is dedicated to ending the plague of isolation and loneliness for the elder population, by providing accessibility to the arts and the community.
Circles of Ten: Women for World Peace
P.O. Box 18923
Boulder, CO, CO 80308
Phone: 303-494-6503
We see a world community whose women, men and children are actively living in peace. Our mission is to make visible the world-wide culture of peace by gathering in circles to identify, declare and carry out acts of courageous peacemaking.
Civil Air Patrol, Boulder Composite Suadron
4750 N. Broadway, PO Box 3782
Boulder, CO 80307
Phone: 303-956-9177
Civil Air Patrol has three Congressionally chartered Missions, Aerospace Education, Emergency Services including airborne search and rescue and disaster relief, and our Cadet Program for youth between 6th grade and age 21.
Climbing for Life
710 10th Street
Golden, CO 80401
Phone: 303-278-0455
Our mission is to provide young people at risk in the Denver/Boulder Metro area with experiences that impact their self-image leading to a more positive future for themselves and their communities. Our goals are to effect positive behavior change, assist in interpersonal and social skills development, and reduce illegal activity through crime prevention initiatives. We achieve these outcomes by building safe and supportive environments, challenging youth appropriately and encouraging them to take responsibility for themselves and their actions.
Clinica Campesina Family Health Services
1345 Plaza Ct. North
Lafayette, CO, CO 80026
Phone: 303-665-3036 x236
To provide health care seervices to low income and other medically underserved people.
The Cohousing Network
1460 uince Ave #102 Boulder, CO 80304 Phone: 303-413-9227
The mission of The Cohousing Network is to support the creation of cohousing communities throughout the country.
CO BPW Education Foundation
P. O. Box 1189
Boulder, CO 80306
Phone: 303-443-2573
The Colorado Business and Professional Women’s Education Foundation invests in women who are transforming their lives through education…for themselves, their families, and their communities.
Colie’s Closet
5665 Pennsylvania Place
Boulder, CO 80303
Phone: 303-494-4225
Colie’s Closet’s mission is to work with and educate teenagers, young adults and others about depression and suicide. Colie’s Closet’s goal is to prevent suicide.
Collage Children’s Museum
2065 30th Street
Boulder, CO 80301
Phone: 303-440-0053
Collage Children’s Museum embraces, empowers and celebrates the whole child in preparation for tomorrow’s world. Through fun, interactive experiences, we ignite a sense of wonder and encourage exploration.
Colorado Anti-Violence Program
1600 Downing Street, Suite 240
Denver, CO 80218
Phone: 303-839-5204
The Colrado Anti-Violence Program is dedicated to ending violence within and against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities of Colorado and ensuring the highest uality services are provided to victims of bias, domestic, sexual, and enforcement violence.
Colorado Chautauua Association
900 Baseline Road
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: 303-442-3282
The Colorado Chautauua Association preserves the site and perpetuates the spirit of the historic Chautauua in Boulder, building community through uniue cultural, educational, social and recreational experiences.
Colorado Conservation Trust
2334 Broadway, Suite A
Boulder, CO 80304
Phone: 720-565-8289
To preserve Colorado’s special places – agricultural lands, wildlife habitat and open spaces – by fostering leadership, strategic intiatives, and increased investment in conservation.
Colorado Council on Economic Education
225 East 16th Avenue Suite 350
Denver, CO 80237
Phone: 303-832-8480
CCEE’s primary work is improving the uality of economic education in Colorado’s K-12 schools by helping teachers meet the Colorado Model Content Standards in Economics. CCEE is a not-for-profit educational organization founded in 1976 and an affiliate of the National Council on Economic Education. Funding is solely from foundations, businesses, and interested individuals.
Colorado Environmental Coalition
1536 Wynkoop Street, #5C
Denver, CO 80202
Phone: 303-534-7066
Since 1965, the Colorado Environmental Coalition (CEC) has been helping citizens protect their uality of life and the natural heritage that makes Colorado uniue. As the grassroots action arm of the Colorado environmental movement, CEC builds and mobilizes citizen campaigns to assure that Coloradans have a powerful voice in decisions that impact our state?s environment.
Colorado Fourteeners Initiative
710 Tenth St., Suite 220
Golden, CO 80401
Phone: 303-278-7525
To protect and preserve the natural integrity of Colorado’s 14,000 foot peaks through active stewardship and public education.
Colorado Friends of the Lost Boys of Sudan
454 Owl Drive
Louisville, CO 80027
Phone: 303-666-0139
The goals of the CFLBS are to assist in the general welfare, job training, and other education of Sudanese refugees living in Colorado known as the Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan who have been orphaned by a prolonged civil war in their country. It is our hope that they may become self-sufficient, educated, healthy and contributing citizens of Colorado and that some of them will one day go back to help rebuild their war-torn country.
Colorado Horse Rescue
10386 N. 65th Street
Longmont, CO 80503
Phone: 720-494-1414
Colorado Horse Rescue provides shelter, care, rehabilitation and adoption services for abused, neglected, abandoned, and unwanted horses.
Colorado Life-sharing Community Initiative
7880 Grasmere Dr.
Boulder, CO 80301
Phone: 303-527-0767
CLCI?s mission is to bring a Camphill community to Colorado. The Camphill Movement is dedicated to social and cultural renewal through community building with children, youth, and adults who have developmental disabilities. In our time, when many people are experiencing a search for meaning, Camphill offers a life of celebration, service, and community in which all participants flourish. With one hundred communities around the globe, the Camphill Movement, founded in 1939, is internationally acclaimed for its high ideals and cutting edge work.
Colorado MahlerFest
970 Aurora Avenue, F-201
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: 303-447-0513
To present annually a one-week music and art festival devoted to the music of Gustav Mahler, and the art and culture of his times.
Colorado Microcredit, Inc.
3003 Arapahoe Street, Suite 218
Denver, CO CO
Phone: 303-293-8544
Colorado Microcredit,Inc. provides eual access to unsecured credit for low-income people, especially women, who want to start or grow a business through peer-lending loan circles and business training.
Colorado Mountain Club, Boulder Group
633 South Broadway, Unit N
Boulder, CO 80305
Phone: 303-554-7688
The Colorado Mountain Club is organized to: * Unite the energy, interest, and knowledge of the students, explorers, and lovers of the mountains of Colorado ; * Collect and disseminate information regarding the Rocky Mountains on behalf of science, literature, art, and recreation; * Stimulate public interest in our mountain area; * Encourage the preservation of forests, flowers, fauna, and natural scenery; and * Render readily accessible the alpine attractions of this region.
Colorado Music Festival
900 Baseline Road, Cottage 100
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: 303-449-1397
The Colorado Music Festival educates, entertains, and challenges audiences of all ages by presenting classical music performed by extraordinary professional musicians from around the world.
Colorado Native Plant Society
P.O. Box 200
Fort Collins, CO 80521
Phone: 970-491-2998 or 303-902-4679
Decidated to the appreciation and conservation of the Colorado native flora.
Colorado Open Lands
274 Union Blvd, Suite 320
Lakewood, CO 80228
Phone: 303-988-2373
To preserve the significant open lands and diminishing natural heritage of Colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation techniues, and strategic leadership.
Colorado Outward Bound School Community Programs
945 Pennsylvania St.
Denver, Colorado, CO 80203
Phone: 303-831-6974
To enhance individual character, promote self-discovery and challenge students to cultivate self-reliance, leadership, fitness, compassion and service through exceptional wilderness education.
Colorado Reptile Humane Society
13941 Elmore Road
Longmont, CO 80504
Phone: 303-776-2070
Colorado Reptile Humane Society (CoRHS) works to bring humane care to pet trade and CO wildlife reptiles and amphibians.
Colorado Shakespeare Festival
277 UCB
Boulder, CO, CO 80309-0277
Phone: 303-492-0554
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival has a 47-year history of excellence, producing an aesthetically challenging mix of both traditional and innovative productions of Shakespeare’s plays. We are committed to: · high professional standards of uality, diversity and safety in all departments · education through outreach, mentorship and advocacy · the development of new work and the nurturing of playwrights in our hope to contribute to the canon of future classics from our culture
Colorado Therapeutic Riding Center
11968 Mineral Road
Longmont, CO 80504
Phone: 303-652-9131
The Colorado Therapeutic Riding Center promotest the physical, psychological and social well-being of persons with disabilities through interaction with a therapeutic team consisting of an instructor and/or therapist, volunteer(s), and a horse.
Colorado Ushers
10 Emerson Street, Suite 403
Denver, CO 80218
Phone: 303-282-8885
Colorado Ushers provides uality and dependable volunteers to the performing arts within the Denver/Boulder metro area.
Colorado Youth Program
205 Canyon Bouldevard
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: 303-402-9656
Connecting kids with nature and their communities.
Community and School Alliance (CASA) Fund
PO Box 27
Nederland, CO 80466
Phone: 303-258-9232
The Community And School Alliance (CASA) Fund was formed to provide private support for Boulder County Mountain educational efforts via grants, community facilitated communications and organization, volunteers, and community business partnership while also serving as a liaison between its stakeholders including students, teachers, educators, parents and community. The CASA Fund shall empower, fund, organize, assist and ultimately compliment the individual and partnership participation to provide the highest uality educational opportunities for children in Nederland and the surrounding mountain areas.
Community Food Share
6363 Horizon Lane
Longmont, CO 80503
Phone: 303-652-3663
People in Boulder and Broomfield Counties are food secure.
Community Foundation Serving Boulder County
1123 Spruce Street
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: 303-442-0436
The Community Foundation exists to encourage philanthropy and improve the uality of life in Boulder County, now and forever.
Community Housing Partners, Inc.
4800 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80304
Phone: 720-564-4646
To fund activities & services that support and improve the uality of life for low-income residents of the Boulder Housing Partners “Healthy Communities Program”. This program impacts and improves social bonding in each uniue BHP community.
Community Shares of Colorado
1536 Wynkoop, Suite 202
Denver, CO 80202
Phone: 303-861-7507
The mission of Community Shares of Colorado is to connect the people of Colorado to the charities the care about the most.
Community Table
950 28th Street
Boulder, CO 80303
Phone: 303-541-9534
Community strives to provide a safe, nurturing and friendly environment where people can improve their nutrition and meet and mingle with new friends. This program is designed for people in need.
Compass House
1720 14th Street
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: 303-440-9410
The mission of Compass House is to provide a wide range of affordable community-based therapeutic services to help youth and their families address a variety of challenging emotional, behavioral, and relationship issues using licensed, experienced professionals.
Congregation Bonai Shalom
1527 Cherryvale Road
Boulder, CO 80303
Phone: 303-442-6605
Congregation Bonai Shalom is a Jewish congregation dedicated to engaging Jewish adults in an active and fulfilling Jewish life through prayer, study and the creation of a vibrant Jewish community, and to prepare children to become fulfilled members and leaders of such a community.
Cottonwood Institute
1076 Grant Place
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: 303-447-1076
The mission of the Cottonwood Institute is to inspire students to change the world through an exciting blend of adventure and service.
CTEK Venture Centers (previously Colorado Technology Incubator)
1625 Broadway Suite 950
Denver, CO 80303
Phone: 303-546-9595
Our mission is to help entrepreneurs build profitable, sustainable business in their local community. Our network of mentors and advisors are committed to innovation in technology, fostering individual leadership and partnering with public and private sectors to support entrepreneurialism.
CU Art Galleries
318 UCB, Univ. of Colorado at Boulderv Boulder, CO 80309-0318
Phone: 303-492-8300
Enhancing public understanding of the visual arts and advocating a cross-disciplinary understanding of social,cultural, technological and historical context through art. Access to art of national and international significance, and broad access to the Colorado Collection, our permanent collection.
Cultivating Stewards/Campaign Earth
935 37th Street
Boulder, CO 80303
Phone: 720-565-1100
Real people, ordinary actions, extraordinary results. Campaign Earth?s mission is to create an environmental movement through incremental changes easily accomplished by the majority of Americans.
Boulder Charities and Non-Profits A
Jan 11th
Boulder Charities and Non Profits page list all that you may wish to donate to or contact.
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Access Counseling (formerly The Counseling Center)
1534 55th St.
Boulder, CO 80303
Phone: 303-449-7898
The Counseling Center provides early intervention counseling, education and referral services to families, couples and individuals in Boulder County regardless of their ability to pay. We seek to strengthen our community by helping people develop the skills they need to resolve difficult life situations before they escalate into more serious problems.
PO Box 17010
Boulder, CO 80308
Phone: 303-545-6772
The Access Fund is a national, non-profit organization dedicated to keeping climbing areas open and conserving the climbing environment.
Acorn School for Early Childhood Development
2580 Iris Avenue @ Folsom
Boulder, CO 80304
Phone: 303-938-8233
The mission of the Acorn School for Early Childhood Development is to provide high uality, accessible, early care and education programs, and to advocate for higher standards in the field of early childhood education.
Addiction Treatment Center of Longmont
2130 Mt. View Ave.
Longmont, CO 80501
Phone: 303-651-9200
Addiction Treatment Center of Longmont (ATC) is an Intensive outpatient substance abuse program. It is designed for adults with alcohol or drug abuse probelms who don’t reuire a hospital stay or residential treatment.
Aeolian Art and Music Institution
2005 18th Street
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: 303-790-2224
Bringing the communities of the East and the West together through fine arts, music, and cultural activities of both the East and the West. Our charter is to create a complete environment for unleashing a child’s creativity. We would like children to develop and sustain interest over the years by offering a positive learning environment in fine arts.
Affordable Housing Alliance
777 Pearl Street, Suite 210
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: 720-260-2800
AHA is dedicated to providing affordable home ownership opportunities for those who could not otherwise afford to own a home in the community in which they live and are active citizens. AHA believes that those who form the social fabric of our community (nurses, teachers, social workers, etc.) should have a permanent home in our community.
Aging Services Foundation of Boulder County
PO Box 471
Boulder, Colorado, CO 80306
Phone: 303-441-4575
The mission of the Aging Services Foundation is to raise and distribute funds for services that promote the health and well-being of older adults and caregiving families.
Alienated Parents Association
PMB 395, 1630 A 30th Street
Boulder, CO, CO 80301
Phone: 303-449-6774
Alienated Parents Association supports family association as a fundamental human right.
All Together Now International
P O Box 7111
Boulder, CO 80306
Phone: 720-565-8777
Our Mission is to support charitable projects designed to address material needs of poor populations in Asia. Our projects also work toward fostering self-sufficiency, cooperation and community. Our intent is also to provide support to individuals for personal action to help those in need.
ALS Association, Rocky Mountain Chapter
P.O. Box 7964
Boulder, CO 80306
Phone: 303-549-1601
The mission of the ALS Association-Rocky Mountain Chapter is to improve the uality of life for ALS patients and their families and to provide patient services support for the management and progression of the disease.
24 Ninth Avenue
Longmont, CO 80501
Phone: 303-776-8184
The mission of Alternatives For Youth, Inc. is to provide timely and responsive services that promote social and academic success for youth and their families.
3188 Redstone Road
Boulder, CO 80305
Phone: 303-499-9331
Alt-X is devoted to supporting digital arts and culture.
6857 Paiute Ave
Longmont, CO 80503
Phone: 303-776-2689
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community-based volunteer health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.
3135 23d Street
Boulder, CO 80304
Phone: 303-673-0292
The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
American Mountain Guides Association
PO Box 1739
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: 303-271-0984
The American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA) is a non-profit organization that seeks to represent the interests of American mountain guides by providing support, education, and standards.
5378 Sterling Dr.
Boulder, CO 80301
Phone: 303-442-0577
The American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization led by volunteers and guided by its congressional charter and the fundamental principles of the International Red Cross Movement, will provide relief to victims of disaster and help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies.
1795 uince Avenue
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: 303-442-4484
Within the environs of home care for elders, Anam Chara expresses its mission of service for each in its community by nurturing a conscious journey through the passages of life.
Archway Wildlife Rehabilitation Inc.
PO Box 17054
Boulder, CO 80308
Phone: 303-774-8347
Archway wildlife seeks to address many environmental issues. We take care of wildlife in need as a direct result of human contact primarily, infant suirrels, raccoons,foxes,wood ducks, mallards and goslings. Another significant part of Archway is outdoor education. We teach animal tracking, wilderness survival, appreciation for the natural world,and heightened awareness,to all age groups. We also offer advice on wildlife conflict and management.
890 Morgan Drive
Boulder, CO 80303
Phone: 303-499-3165
The art of choral music has been constrained in the minds of most of the populace of our state to endless repeat performances of a handful of traditional masterpieces. The Ars Nova Singers has accepted a leadership role in breaking new ground in Colorado’s choral tradition and opening up this music to new audiences. To accomplish our mission, Ars Nova is committed to these principles: ? the furthering of the choral art form, through public performances of the highest artistic uality; ? to educate our audiences about the diversity of artistic expression in the choral art form across eras and cultures, through innovative programming of non-standard repertoire; ? to emphasize, as our name implies, “New Art;? that is, choral music of the 20th and 21st centuries.
PO Box 1461
Longmont, CO 80502
Phone: 303-678-8417
Promoting the cultural arts in historic downtown Longmont.
Association for Community Living in Boulder County
5744 N. 71st Street
Longmont, CO 80503
Phone: 303-527-0888
The mission statement of the Association for Community Living is: We believe that people with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities belong in the community in natural proportions ? to live, to work, and to participate fully in all aspects of community life. The ACL in Boulder County exists to ensure these rights by acting as a catalyst to promote attitudes, practices, programs, and policies that result in full participation.
Association for Experiential Education
3775 Iris Ave., Suite #4
Boulder , CO 80301
Phone: 303-440-8844
The mission of the Association for Experiential Education is to develop and promote experiential education. The association is committed to supporting professional development, theoretical advancement and the evaluation of experiential education worldwide.
Association for Traditional Studies
1630-A 30th Street, #420
Boulder, CO CO 80301
Phone: 303-482-2046
The Association is dedicated to the preservation, documentation, and dissemination of traditional arts and knowledge around the world. The survival of traditional arts is imperative as we face issues of sustainability and development in the 21st century and the Association strives to create an environment for traditional practioners to reach the world to share their arts and knowledge.
736 Pearl Street
Boulder, Colorado, CO 80302
Phone: 303-447-0816
To make uality beer and brewing knowledge accessible to all.
Attention, Inc. (Attention Homes)
3080 Broadway Suite C
Boulder, CO 80304
Phone: 303-447-1206
The mission of Attention Homes is to provide residential treatment, counseling, and safe shelter to at-risk youth.
1966 13th Street, Suite 230
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: 303-415-0130
Audubon Colorado exists to inspire and work with people to conserve, restore and enjoy natural habitats in our state. We focus on birds and other wildlife through education, research, careful use of our resources, and by serving as strong voices for the natural world.
100 Health Park Drive
Louisville, CO 80027
Phone: 303-761-0186
Extend the healing ministry of Christ by caring for those who are ill and by nurturing the health of the people of our communities.
Ayacara International
3926 Promontory Ct.
Boulder, CO 80304
Phone: 720-565-9266
Fundacion Ayacara was created to match the need for concrete direct action in those areas where the socio-environmental crises are threatening sensitive ecosystems and very undeveloped communities in southern Chile Patagonia. Based on the fact that every single problem we are facing today originates within ourselves, this project focuses on proposing new alternatives based on comprehensive understanding of nature and its cycles for education and the development of the edge zones where wilderness and civilization clash.
100 will Sleep Out for Homeless Youth November 13th!
Nov 5th
November is National Homeless and Runaway Youth Awareness Month.
Sign up to Sleep Out here: http://attentionhomes.donorpages.com/sleepout2014/
BOULDER, CO. – Attention Homes has announced that on Thursday, November 13th over 100 community members will sleep out in support of homeless and runaway youth. November is officially Homeless and Runaway Youth Awareness Month. The 3rd Annual Sleep Out for Homeless Youth will be presented in partnership with First United Methodist Church of Boulder. Attention Homes, a local non-profit organization, is the only shelter for youth in Boulder County providing day and overnight shelter.
Participants will be spending the night sleeping outside on the lawn in downtown Boulder between Attention Homes’ office and the First United Methodist Church, near 15th and Spruce Street. They have pledged to each raise $1,000 for Attention Homes from friends, family and colleagues through their own fundraising page. Sleep Out is expected to raise more than $100,000 to support Attention Homes’ homeless and runaway youth services.
“The number of youth in our community who are either homeless or unstably housed is currently estimated to be 150 or more on any given night,” says Claire Clurman, Executive Director of Attention Homes. “Sleep Out is an opportunity to raise awareness about and funds for this critically important issue. By taking part in this event, individuals, community and business leaders will glimpse what life is like as a homeless youth by exposing themselves to weather and the uncertainties that come from living on the streets. Our hope is that as they return the next morning to safe and warm homes, their jobs and families, they will share a message of awareness and support for these local kids that need our attention and help.” Both principals from Fairview and Boulder High will be sleeping out this year.
Sleep Out participants will arrive the evening of November 13th at First United Methodist Church and take part in a simple meal provided by Pasta Jay’s before preparing to sleep out. Early the next morning, a light breakfast will be served before departing back to work and home where participants are encouraged to not shower or change in order to further heighten their connection to the experience of being homeless. Rev. Pat Bruns, Senior Pastor of First United Methodist Church, was an early supporter of the event and believes Sleep Out perfectly complements their affirming and welcoming community that reaches out to support a variety of local non-profits. “Caring for one another works best when we build creative partnerships that help meet a wide variety of needs. Whether it is through our efforts with the Boulder County Aids Project, OutBoulder, Community Table, which also feeds the poor and homeless or by supporting the essential work of Attention Homes, we are doing what we all should do to help those who are so often both marginalized and forgotten in our community. And we are committed to changing the systems that create marginalization, neglect and homelessness in the first place.”
Attention Homes expects to serve close to 800 youth by the end of 2014 through street outreach, day drop-in services and overnight shelter. Programs connect vulnerable youth to education, employment, housing, mental health and substance abuse support and family reunification. To learn more about how you can participate go to www.attentionhomes.org/sleepout.
About Attention Homes:
Since 1966 Attention Homes has provided opportunities for youth in crisis to change their lives. We offer safe shelter, community-based living and teaching of life skills necessary for an independent future. Attention Homes operates the only shelter for youth in Boulder County.
Contact:
Claire Clurman : Executive Director
cclurman@attentionhomes.org
303.447.1206 x122
720.308.1001 (cell)
www.attentionhomes.org